What sort of incompetent cop doesn't know how to handcuff a person properly and then leaves the keys in or near the ignition while not in the car? The article doesn't mention said cop getting right bollocking for that.

The One True TheDavid:Especially since few meth cooks can make anything more than 40% pure so there'll be plenty of weird molecules to suffer from. And chili powder.

Yeah, whenever I see a "Faces of Meth" pic I wonder how much of that hideousness is due to not the meth, but remaining chemicals from the rather terrifying list of ingredients the amateur chemists use:

If meth was legal and available for cheap in pure form OTC (with a big warning label, of course) would fewer people overall end up being hurt and/or dead?